No Worries

People have often asked me in ministry: "Does it worry you who wasn't in Church today?” or “Does it worry you whether you were on form?” or “Does it worry you that we had a bad month (financially)?” Well, no. It didn't and it doesn't -- not more than fleetingly. The reason for this is a doctrine which Churches almost completely lost around a hundred years ago, namely that ministry is a means of grace -- a means through which God’s sovereign grace operates. Basically, it is the Calvinistic teaching on the means of grace, only broader. OBSERVATION: I once interviewed a new deacon in Church. I asked him what his first impressions of his fellow deacons were. He said: “I was worried that they weren’t worried!”